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The Age
a day ago
- Entertainment
- The Age
A new kind of drama is set to unfold with changed privacy laws
An Australian scandal is a like a sudden southerly on a clear summer's day – unexpected, jarring and liable to leave everyone shivering in its wake. From political pitfalls to celebrity slip-ups and the ever-rumbling corridors of Parliament House, we are a nation that guards privacy with one hand and refreshes newsfeeds with the other. Little wonder, then, that a show like Bridgerton – with its heaving corsets, whispered secrets and illicit entanglements – has a devoted fan base here. It's not just the drama that captivates us, but the tension between the private and the public, discretion and spectacle. While fans must wait until 2026 for the next episode, take heart 'dearest gentle reader': whispers among case-starved defamation lawyers suggest a new kind of drama is set to unfold. From Tuesday, a new statutory tort of privacy makes its debut on the Australian legal stage – and it's expected to dance to a familiar tune. Australians who suffer a serious invasion of privacy may claim up to $478,000 in damages and seek remedies including injunctions. As the age of unchecked intrusion draws to a genteel close, Lady Whistledown herself might remark that society's most prominent figures will breathe easier behind their velvet curtains. Or so they may think. As far back as 1960, US professor William Prosser identified four privacy torts: intrusion upon seclusion; public disclosure of private facts; false light portrayal; and appropriation of likeness. By 1977, all four were recorded in the US Restatement of Torts, a treatise issued by the American Law Institute. While not uniformly adopted there, intrusion and disclosure are well established – especially in celebrity-laden California. Britain took longer to get there. In 1991, two Sunday Sport photographers posed as doctors to snap a British actor in his hospital bed. The Court of Appeal famously declared: 'In English law, there is no right to privacy'. By 2000, however, the House of Lords changed course in Naomi Campbell v Mirror Group Newspapers. The action for 'misuse of private information' was born. By 2014, it was recognised as a tort, and today, privacy suits in London have become de rigueur. New Zealand recognised a general tort of privacy in 2004. By 2012 it recognised intrusion into seclusion as a standalone tort when a young woman was secretly filmed in the shower and awarded damages. That same year, Canada did likewise when a bank employee whose financial data had been improperly accessed received damages. Australia, by contrast, wasn't even at the races. It relied on defamation and breach of confidence – a patchy and much-criticised regime. This nearly changed a quarter-century ago in the Lenah Game Meats case. The chief justice urged better protection for privacy; the Australian Law Reform Commission echoed this in 2014. Lawyers even tried to open cracks left by the Lenah case, but these mostly faltered. In 2016, former High Court judge Michael Kirby said the inertia made Australia a ' laughing stock '.
Sydney Morning Herald
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Sydney Morning Herald
A new kind of drama is set to unfold with changed privacy laws
An Australian scandal is a like a sudden southerly on a clear summer's day – unexpected, jarring and liable to leave everyone shivering in its wake. From political pitfalls to celebrity slip-ups and the ever-rumbling corridors of Parliament House, we are a nation that guards privacy with one hand and refreshes newsfeeds with the other. Little wonder, then, that a show like Bridgerton – with its heaving corsets, whispered secrets and illicit entanglements – has a devoted fan base here. It's not just the drama that captivates us, but the tension between the private and the public, discretion and spectacle. While fans must wait until 2026 for the next episode, take heart 'dearest gentle reader': whispers among case-starved defamation lawyers suggest a new kind of drama is set to unfold. From Tuesday, a new statutory tort of privacy makes its debut on the Australian legal stage – and it's expected to dance to a familiar tune. Australians who suffer a serious invasion of privacy may claim up to $478,000 in damages and seek remedies including injunctions. As the age of unchecked intrusion draws to a genteel close, Lady Whistledown herself might remark that society's most prominent figures will breathe easier behind their velvet curtains. Or so they may think. As far back as 1960, US professor William Prosser identified four privacy torts: intrusion upon seclusion; public disclosure of private facts; false light portrayal; and appropriation of likeness. By 1977, all four were recorded in the US Restatement of Torts, a treatise issued by the American Law Institute. While not uniformly adopted there, intrusion and disclosure are well established – especially in celebrity-laden California. Britain took longer to get there. In 1991, two Sunday Sport photographers posed as doctors to snap a British actor in his hospital bed. The Court of Appeal famously declared: 'In English law, there is no right to privacy'. By 2000, however, the House of Lords changed course in Naomi Campbell v Mirror Group Newspapers. The action for 'misuse of private information' was born. By 2014, it was recognised as a tort, and today, privacy suits in London have become de rigueur. New Zealand recognised a general tort of privacy in 2004. By 2012 it recognised intrusion into seclusion as a standalone tort when a young woman was secretly filmed in the shower and awarded damages. That same year, Canada did likewise when a bank employee whose financial data had been improperly accessed received damages. Australia, by contrast, wasn't even at the races. It relied on defamation and breach of confidence – a patchy and much-criticised regime. This nearly changed a quarter-century ago in the Lenah Game Meats case. The chief justice urged better protection for privacy; the Australian Law Reform Commission echoed this in 2014. Lawyers even tried to open cracks left by the Lenah case, but these mostly faltered. In 2016, former High Court judge Michael Kirby said the inertia made Australia a ' laughing stock '.
RTÉ News
4 days ago
- Climate
- RTÉ News
Tailteann Cup Preliminary Quarter-Finals: All you need to know
SATURDAY, 7 JUNE Offaly v New York, Glenisk O'Connor Park, 2pm Westmeath v Laois, TEG Cusack Park, 5pm SUNDAY, 8 JUNE Wexford v Antrim, Chadwicks Wexford Park, 1.30pm Sligo v Carlow, Kilcoyne Park, Tubbercurry, 2pm ONLINE Live scoring on RTÉ.ie and the RTÉ News app. Highlights also available across the weekend. TV Offaly v New York and Westmeath v Laois will be streamed live on GAA+. Highlights of all the weekend's action on The Sunday Game, RTÉ2 and the RTÉ Player, from 9.30pm. RADIO Live updates on RTÉ Radio 1's Saturday Sport and Sunday Sport - and RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta's Spórt an tSathairn and Spórt an Lae. WEATHER Saturday: After a wet start to the day, cloud and rain will gradually clear eastwards leaving a mix of showers and sunny spells for Saturday. Highest temperatures of 12 to 15 degrees in moderate to fresh and occasionally strong northwest winds. Sunday: A mix of sunshine and showers, with cloud increasing in the west through the afternoon, before brightening again by the evening. Highest temperatures of just 13 to 16 degrees in moderate westerly winds. For more go to We welcome New York And so 16 became 11+1. The add-on, the footballers of New York, who again enter the competition at this stage. Perhaps, supporters in Leitrim are cursing their arrival, as they were the third-placed side to lose out after the regulation phase. A crumb of comfort for Stephen Poacher's side is that they finished a difficult year on a high with that win over Tipperary. Poacher is already looking towards next January, plotting Leitrim's escape from Division 4, no doubt. New York have been preparing for this weekend since their Connacht exit at the hands of Galway on 6 April. More time to get used to the new playing rules. That said, the Exiles looked more than assured in adjusting to the changes, with Frank O'Reilly, Bobby O'Regan and James Walsh catching the eye with their two-pointers. New York certainly put it up to the Tribes in the opening half, trailing only by three points at the break. They gave as good as they got, before being overpowered 2-18 to 0-06 by the Connacht champions on the resumption. They will obviously hope to stay in the game longer when taking on Offaly at Glenisk O'Connor Park. The counties previously met at the quarter-final stage in 2022. A point that New York forward Shane Brosnan alluded to, when speaking to RTÉ Sport last month. "We were very good for 35 minutes, we know we need to probably add on another bit of fitness and hopefully complete that performance that we had in the first-half for a full 70-minute game, he said. "We probably just didn't have the legs to keep going in the second-half, but it was good to get the game against a team like Galway." Preliminary and onto quarter-finals proper So we have our pairings this weekend: Offaly v New York, Westmeath v Laois, Wexford v Antrim and Sligo v Carlow. Watching on with their quarter-final spots guaranteed after topping their groups are Kildare, Limerick, Fermanagh and Wicklow. This quartet will have home advantage in the last eight, where the draw, live on Morning Ireland, RTÉ Radio 1 from 8.35am on Monday, shall be subject to the avoidance of repeat pairings from the group stage where possible. Pairings that can't happen: Kildare v Sligo, Wicklow v Offaly, Wicklow v Laois, Limerick v Westmeath, Limerick v Antrim, Fermanagh v Wexford, Fermanagh v Carlow. The quarter-finals are scheduled across the weekend of 14/15 June. Surprise participants at this juncture Ahead of the concluding round, both Westmeath and Offaly were favoured to secure their quarter-final berths. The same could be said of Carlow, who faced the already eliminated Longford. But the trio suffered defeats: Westmeath and Offaly by the bare minimum against Limerick and Laois respectively, the classic sucker-punch in both cases, while Carlow were well off it against their Leinster opponents and were somewhat flattered with the five-point difference in the end. Now it's a case of picking up the pieces. For Declan Kelly and Mickey Harte (above), New York are something of an unknown quantity, as they look to get the Faithful ship back on course. Losing to a 75th-minute penalty against their neighbours was a jolt. In truth, they would have expected this week off. That said, you'd fancy them too see off their overseas visitors here, where Ruairi McNamee will surely get another chance to impress after kicking some fine scores when introduced last weekend. Westmeath v Laois, on paper, is the game of the weekend. A clash of the maiden winners and last year's finalists. For the Lake County, 2025 has so far been a year of agonising defeats, most notably during their Division 2 campaign. Relegation was the outcome there. More heartache last weekend when Emmett Rigter's point at the death denied Dermot McCabe's men a last-eight berth. It was a nip and tuck affair in Portlaoise, where both teams had periods of ascendancy, one such period saw Westmeath score seven points on the spin in the second half to re-establish the lead. They couldn't push that out and were caught in the end by an improving Limerick side. Laois' victory over Offaly was characterised by a decent spread of scorers across their starting XV and substitutes. Brian Byrne, in the full-forward line, was excellent throughout, while Mark Barry was coolness personified in slotting home the winning penalty. Justin McNulty really got a tune out of Laois throughout the knockout phase last year. That took them all the way to the final. Accounting for another of the pre-competition favourites should set them up nicely again, though the slight nod here is in the direction of Westmeath. First up on Sunday is the clash of Wexford v Antrim. The Slaneysiders could not live with Fermanagh's second-half onslaught at Croker and dropped to second in their group. They can have no complaints in what was their second defeat at GAA HQ this season after losing the Division 4 final to Limerick. Antrim squeezed through in third spot in their group, when seeing off London by eight points. The margin of victory was significant in just edging out Leitrim for that remaining place. Late scores from Marc Jordan and Dominic McEnhill were crucial to give Andy McEntee's men another day out. Wexford, on their home patch, should have enough to advance. With Markievicz Park having work done on its surface, Kilcoyne Park in Tubbercurry will stage Sligo v Carlow. A fair assessment of the Yeats County so far would suggest they have not quite hit the same levels reached reached in 2024 where they nearly took Galway's scalp in Connacht and then lost narrowly to eventual winners Down in the semi-finals of this competition. They were expected to push for promotion from Division 3. That never materialised and they were far from impressive in defeating Tipperary and Leitrim in the group stage. Fifteen points down against Kildare, they fought gamely to reduce the deficit, prompting manager Tony McEntee to hail a resilience that hasn't been in this team here before. Carlow, after that setback against Longford, will need to regroup. Manager Joe Murphy is accentuating the positives and speaking on local radio, said: "They're in a division higher than us and that, but you know, we travelled well before when we went to Fermanagh. We won't fear anyone and we will give it our all." Sligo, however, are the best bet to progress.
RTÉ News
29-05-2025
- Sport
- RTÉ News
RTÉ GAA Podcast: Galway and Mayo face defining clashes, Croker to host cracker
Nigel Dunne joins Jacqui Hurley and Rory O'Neill to look ahead to a busy weekend of championship action. The last two All-Ireland winners - Dublin and Mayo - are set to meet at Croke Park, Cork host Kerry again, while Galway and Derry have a potentially season defining game at Celtic Park. Watch Dublin v Armagh in the All-Ireland Football Championship on Sunday from 3.30pm on RTÉ2 and RTÉ Player. Follow a live blog on and the RTÉ News app and listen to Sunday Sport on RTÉ Radio 1. Highlights on The Sunday Game at 9.30pm
The 42
27-05-2025
- Sport
- The 42
The key areas where Cork must clean up house before facing Limerick again
IT FEELS LIKE there is more than just a first Munster title in seven years at stake for the Cork hurlers. A second pop at Limerick signals a chance at redemption. It's an opportunity to remind the wider hurling community that they are still All-Ireland finalists and that their credentials for 2025 have not withered away. A chance to wipe out the damage of that 16-point defeat two weeks ago. Manager Pat Ryan alluded to it when he spoke to the media after the Waterford game, as he emphasised the importance of 'representing the jersey' and carrying the Cork emblem with distinction. In order to do that against Limerick, they must tidy up a few areas. **** Address injury concerns Cork have some important injury concerns to sort through before the ball is thrown in on 7 June. They were without Rob Downey, Niall O'Leary and Declan Dalton for the Waterford game, and they may also be forced to put defender Ger Millerick on the treatment table too. He suffered a suspected dislocated finger against Waterford which requires a scan. As well as being an experienced defender, Millerick also created the move which resulted in Patrick Horgan's goal. He delivered a brilliant pass over his shoulder which broke kindly for Hayes to pop the ball out to Horgan for the final swing. Immediately after that, Millerick carried the ball down the wing before laying off to Hayes for a point. Advertisement Cork have a second goal and it's Patrick Horgan who drives it into the net to extend the lead over Waterford 📺 Watch on @rte2 & @rteplayer 📻 Sunday Sport @rteradio1 Live blog 👇 — The Sunday Game (@TheSundayGame) May 25, 2025 Dalton had featured in all three of Cork's Munster games, and started against Tipperary (1-6) and Limerick before limping off in the first half. Shane Barrett, Darragh Fitzgibbon and Séamus Harnedy combined for eight points against Waterford, but Dalton would be a huge loss to the half-forward line if he is unfit to play. Pat Ryan was already down a corner-back before Millerick's withdrawal against Waterford, and he will need a strong batch of defenders to marshal Aaron Gillane, Shane O'Brien and David Reidy. That trio combined for 2-9 in their last meeting, with Gillane hitting 2-7. Damien Cahalane replaced Millerick against Waterford and he may be needed again for Cork's second trip to the Gaelic Grounds. Rob Downey started against Limerick but was taken off at half-time. Ryan has since admitted that they 'probably shouldn't have played Rob' in that game, but were reluctant to omit him from selection as he is their captain. Cormac O'Brien, who replaced Downey in the Limerick game, made his first championship start against Waterford and scored a point before coming off in the final moments. Improve Accuracy Cork were clinical enough to get the better of Waterford but were wasteful in front of goal too. They had 17 wides before close of business in Páirc Uí Chaoimh while also dropping three efforts into Billy Nolan's hand. That return in front of goal will not go unpunished against a Limerick side who have a scoring a difference of 17 which is by far the highest in the Munster championship table. Against Waterford, some of Cork's more reliable shooters were off target at times, including Darragh Fitzgibbon and Séamus Harnedy who both missed chances in the opening 10 minutes as Waterford built up a 0-4 0-1 lead. The wind factor, however, was significant. And even when they were playing against it in the first half, they still held a 0-13 0-12 lead at half-time. Cork scored two goals but could have had more. Shortly after Hayes tapped the ball in, Shane Barrett launched a shot that fizzed past the Waterford goal from roughly the same position. Some of the other wides that followed their second goal were scores that could have killed off any chance at a late Waterford fightback. In the first half against Limerick, Horgan missed a crucial goal chance when Cork were trailing 1-10 to 0-5 after another one of those pop passes from Hayes. His effort was batted back into play by Nickie Quaid, and a counter offensive ended with Gearóid Hegarty splitting the posts. What should have been a five-point game ended up being a nine-point gap. If Cork don't rinse out that inefficiency, Limerick will crush them at the other end. Win the midfield battle Red circles will go around the names Cian Lynch, Adam English, Will O'Donoghue and Kyle Hayes, particularly if Cork are intent on bringing their half-back line so far forward again. Their structure left a lot of space open against Limerick, which Tom Morrissey exploited to score five points with ease. English scored 1-2 in that game and has 2-8 in total from the round-robin, while Lynch has five points so far. The pair linked up for English's first-half goal against Cork and their attacking instincts are assisted by O'Donoghue's ability to sit back and hold the middle. Adam English with a 2⃣nd Goal for @LimerickCLG in a dominant 1st Half against @OfficialCorkGAA in the @MunsterGAA Hurling Championship 🏆 #LIMVCOR — The GAA (@officialgaa) May 18, 2025 Hayes, Lynch and English all played vital roles in creating Limerick's second goal against Cork. It came from a Cork puckout, as Hayes reached in with his stick and flicked the ball forward to Lynch. He cut back into the middle, and flicked the ball beautifully into the path of English who was running through into open space before sniping the ball into the corner. Lynch's point which came directly after English's goal came from another Hayes intervention, who has been lording the centre-back position throughout the championship. Protect lead Against both Clare and Waterford, Cork built up leads which they let slip. The Rebels were 12 points up at half-time against the Banner and needed a late Declan Dalton free to rescue a draw. Shane Barrett's red card in the 57th minute can't be discounted when reviewing that result as well as the first-round adrenaline which helped bring Clare back into the contest. But the concession of three goals in the second half cannot be ignored either. Cork went eight points clear after Horgan provided their second goal against Waterford, but were pulled back to three. They eventually won by six but there were other slips that they were fortunate not to pay a high price for. Mark Coleman, who had an otherwise solid day out, almost conceded an own goal while trying to catch a long free in. The sliotar popped out of his hand and only the width of the crossbar spared him at a time when Cork were 2-18 to 0-16 ahead. Even the goal that Waterford did score was arguably preventable. Goalkeeper Patrick Collins looked disappointed after Stephen Bennett's shot bounced past him into the net. Their seven-point lead was suddenly down to four. Bennett broke through again in the next play only to be denied by the butt of the post. Jamie Barron also had an attempt at goal which he missed. Should they get in front against Limerick, they will need a tighter defensive shape to stay ahead. Related Reads 5 Talking points as hurling round-robins draw to a close 'Fellas would be building you up, hoping you'd get a kick in the ass' - Ryan on Cork hype 'Every football team is still in Championship' - Queally calls for change to hurling structure Reduce Limerick's goal-count This relates to the point above. Limerick smashed three goals past Cork in the previous meeting and have raised five green flags in all during this round-robin series. But it's the timing of Limerick's goals against Cork that requires examination, with the first one coming in just the second minute. A Cian Lynch delivery found Aaron Gillane in the corner. His marker Niall O'Leary was too far off in the race for possession and slipped as Gillane cut a path along the inside. Ciarán Joyce tried to race across and cut out the danger, but was side-stepped too easily. Aaron Gillane produces this majestic goal for Limerick as they make a blistering start 📺 📻 🖥️ #SundayGame — The Sunday Game (@TheSundayGame) May 18, 2025 The third goal just after the hour mark was arguably the most cruel blow. Horgan's penalty moments earlier gave Cork a lifeline as they trailed 2-23 to 1-16. But a dangerous ball landed on top of Gillane and Eoin Downey at the edge of the square. Downey was ruled to be fouling and Gillane converted the penalty to quench the Cork rebellion. There were other nervy moments when the Cork backs looked brittle. Shane O'Brien created a goal chance for Tom Morrissey which was blocked on the line by Coleman while Barry Nash also broke through the full-back line only to be snuffed out before he could strike.
